The Return Route. Photographs by Oleg Videnin

Oleg Videnin (1963)

Synopsis

"The Return Route" by Oleg Videnin is a photographic monograph featuring 84 black-and-white portraits taken in Russia’s provincial towns and outskirts, focusing on ordinary people outside urban centers. Created using traditional silver-based techniques, the images are shaped by Videnin’s deeply personal and intuitive process of selection—seeking subjects who serve as emotional and psychological mirrors of his inner state. The book reflects themes of memory, identity, and a nostalgic connection to a fading Soviet-era sensibility. Accompanying texts reveal the artist’s introspective rationale and rejection of objectivity, framing the work as a subjective visual journey through past and place.

Book Details

ISBN-10:
5904508034
ISBN-13:
9785904508036
PUBLISHER:
Art-Volkhonka
YEAR:
2009
BINDING:
Hardcover
PAGES:
112 pages
SIZE:
22 x 32 cm
LANGUAGE:
Russian

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